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Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
[4] [5] The Guardian noted surprising titles missing from the list, like Moby-Dick (1851), [6] and writing in The Daily Telegraph, Jake Kerridge called it "a short-sighted list that will please nobody." [7] The BBC relied on six experts: Stig Abell, Mariella Frostrup, Juno Dawson, Kit de Waal, Alexander McCall Smith and Syima Aslam.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own. ”
See Double-double (disambiguation) § Literature and media. Toil and Trouble, volume 2 title of the comic book series X-Men Blue; Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr (IV.i) Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble by H. P. Mallory (IV.i) A Charm of Powerful Trouble by Joanne Horniman (IV.i) By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (IV.i)
Christopher Hitchens, introducing the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Scoop, said "[i]n the pages of Scoop we encounter Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch; youthful and limber and light as a feather" and noted: "The manners and mores of the press, are the recurrent motif of the book and the chief reason for its enduring magic...this world of callousness and vulgarity and ...
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Because the majority are from the United States , the country of origin is only listed for those outside the U.S.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Novellas are works of prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Several novellas have been recognized as among the best examples of the literary form. Publishers and literary award societies typically consider a ...
If a novel title is also the name of an article that is not about a novel, the novel article should be named Novel Title (novel). Disambiguation links should appear at the top of both pages. If two different novels by different authors have the same title, each article should be named Novel Title (AUTHORNAME novel).